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Margaret J. Wheatley
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Business Theorist
Writer
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In our daily life, we encounter people we are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying ere is so their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
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Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.
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Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.
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we don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts.
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We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.
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Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.
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The future cannot be determined. It can only be experienced as it occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.
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As we let go of the machine model of work, we begin to step back and see ourselves in new ways, to appreciate wholeness, and to design organizations that honor and make use of the totality of who we are.
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Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions
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We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
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You can’t hate someone whose story you know.
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When error holds so much power, play disappears. Creativity ceases.
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All social change begins with a conversation.
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Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
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Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.
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I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
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When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
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Who you are depends on who you meet.
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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others
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